>yes it is, but build tools and other userland that are not depend on system >directly like pmap may and must be posix compliant (ld , mkdir for example)
The problem is that even if "ld" is posix compliant, the ld extensions Solaris relies on (or Linux for that matter) are not in POSIX. And Solaris utilities such as ld were never developed to run anything but Solaris and they can easily depend on non-POSIX extensions in Solaris. So before you can build Solaris on non-Solaris you will have to port the Solaris toolchain over. The GNU toolchain by and large predates Linux so it is no surprise that it run on many OSes. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
